Everybody knows Michal Kempny Jersey that teams hold things back during the preseason. Nobody runs their "real" offense or defense, because nobody wants to give away any secrets that could be used to steal a win or two during the games that count.Nowhere has this lack of transparency been more noticeable than in Baltimore and Arizona, where we have been hearing throughout the offseason about the creativity and novelty the and will be bringing to their respective offenses but have yet to see them bring said creativity and novelty to the field during actual games. Instead, the Ravens and Cardinals have trotted and onto the field throughout the preseason and largely asked them to do what any other quarterback in the league might do in preseason games.But while both teams stuck largely with the most vanilla concepts po sible during the preseason snaps for which their starter was on the field, the way they aligned themselves and their play-calling within those alignments highlighted some of the differences in the way the Ravens and Cardinals plan to attack opposing defenses this season.PersonnelPlaysRunRun YdPa sPa s YdPenaltyPen YdTotal Yd1114489651-106312724539004321431211001322321810001813213001-10-70210010000ALL311245171052-10130The chart above shows the personnel groupings and play-call frequencies for the 31 snaps (not including pre-snap penalties) on which Lamar Jackson and the first-team offense were on the field for the Ravens during the preseason. While Baltimore was in 11 personnel (1 RB, 1 TE) nearly half the time (42.6 percent), you can see that offensive coordinator Greg Roman and company mixed things up quite a bit, formation-wise. Baltimore used six different alignments on its 31 plays, and called at least one run and at least one pa s out of four of them.The Ravens called zero designed quarterback runs for Jackson and zero jet sweep hand-offs. They lined up a wide receiver somewhere other than in the slot or out wide zero times. They had two of their running Mark Messier Jersey backs on the field together zero times. They took zero snaps with or sharing the field with Jackson.In one-back formations (11, 12, 13) the Ravens called a pa s on 15 of 23 snaps (65.2 percent, including penalties). In two-back formations (21, 22) they called a run on six of seven snaps (85.7 percent). Those tendencies carried over to the way the Ravens had Jackson taking the snap. Baltimore pa sed the ball on 13 of 15 snaps out of shotgun and ran it on eight of 10 snaps Jackson took under center. Only in the pistol formation did they distribute the play-calls evenly.QB LocPlaysRunPa sPenaltyYardsGun15212164Under1072133Pistol633033ALL3112172130Of the Ravens' 12 total running plays, six of them were undisguised dive runs right up the middle. The pa s plays they called were largely designed to get the ball out of Jackson's hands extremely quickly on easy-to-complete routes: 12 of his 16 Sonny Milano Women Jersey pa ses were released within 2.5 seconds of the snap, per Pro Football Focus, and his average depth of throw was just 8.5 yards. This was a team intent on showing nothing, and other than a desire to mix things up with formations and snap-delivery system, they mostly did not show anything at all.The Cardinals, meanwhile, were on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. While the Ravens changed things up on a near every-snap basis, the Cardinals stayed largely in the same exact personnel packages for almost the entire time they had Murray on the field. In fact, 53 of the 62 snaps Murray took (excluding pre-snap penalties) saw the Cardinals line up in 11 personnel. That's an 85.5 percent rate, nearly on par with where the were .PersonnelPlaysRunRun YdPa sPa s YdPenaltyPen YdTotal Yd11531023371536-4013612541213001513313002-20-171010010000ALL621538391568-40134Like the Ravens, the Cardinals Tampa Bay Lightning Jersey appeared to tip their hands regarding the intention of the play to come with their personnel groupings and the alignment of their quarterback. With three-plus receivers on the field (10, 11) the Cardinals called a pa s play on 42 of 54 snaps (77.8 percent, including penalties). With two or fewer wideouts in the game, the Cardinals ran the ball on seven of eight snaps (87.5 percent).Unlike the Ravens, the Cardinals kept the snap-delivery system extremely consistent. Murray lined up in the shotgun on 57 of 62 snaps and took the ball from under center just once. (There was one snap in the pistol formation.) But much like Baltimore, the snap deliver was often a tell regarding Arizona's intentions. To wit: The Cardinals ran the ball all four times they had Murray take a snap from under center, while they called for a pa s on 43 of 58 snaps where he was in the shotgun or pistol formation.QB LocPlaysRunPa sPenaltyYardsGun5711388121Under440013Pistol10100ALL6215398134The post-snap play-calling, again, was extremely vanilla.Let's look at the 19 run plays Arizona called (including penalties) by what type of run they were: six dives, Dallas Stars T-Shirt three zone runs, two power runs, three stretch runs, three delayed draws, and one read-option keeper where Murray was tackled almost immediately.And the pa ses: Murray got rid of the ball within 2.5 seconds almost half the time he dropped back, completing 16 of 19 pa ses for 141 yards, per PFF. The times where he did not release quickly were largely because of pre sure or because he was throwing a deep corner route, which he mi sed on every occasion the Cardinals called for it. His aver